“But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.”
Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run out; they cry 'Stand! Stand!' but none turns back—the image of a depleted reservoir emphasizes irreversible collapse and the futility of efforts to stem the destruction. The failed commands highlight the helplessness of leadership; there is no rallying the scattered forces, no reversing the rout. The verse depicts not just military defeat but complete disintegration of organized resistance.
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